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from deep inside your audio device of choice hey what the frack you know there's there's some start and stop fracking going on in our friends in great United Britain fracking which was started at a shell gas well near blackpool it's a seaside town isn't it in it they've been fracking there they started fracking there they stopped they started they stopped it stopped again after they started again after the area was struck by guess what that's right the most powerful earthquakes since operations began earthquakes are getting stronger that's not a signal 27 minor earthquakes have occurred near quadrilla that's the name of the energy companies site since fracking started just two weeks ago that's a lot more than one a day this was a 1.1 magnitude tremor the biggest so far and the second two have crossed the regulatory

threshold which dictates that the operators stop fracking for a while anything greater than a point five magnitude quake requires them to stop injecting the water which disturbs well it fractures the rock quadrilla confirmed the event occurred while it was fracking it said fracking would cease for 18 hours before it restarts that gives the earth time doesn't that I think that's all the earth really asks knock it off for 18 hours then go muck about again and they line shy in oil field by product water it's now a resource instead of a waste wouldn't you love to just bang proclaim all waste a resource problem solved that new resource may improve the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers on core green and the beneficial use water alliance water day and metal grazing grass with

cleaned by product water from the hydraulic fracturing process this is in shy in Jeff Holger of the beneficial use water alliance and Melvin Nash founder of encore green used existing technology to develop a new method to clean the by product water it contains some oil oh sorry they as it comes to them it contains some oil as well as sand and other elements that make it unsuitable for use oh those sound like nice elements invite them over sometime dawn I think the statistic is 71 billion gallons of water was essentially thrown away in 2017 in the state of Wyoming now this fracking wastewater just 27 billion sorry 71 billion we got that on us water is usually injected into an underground injection well to dispose of it he says we don't really know what we're putting back to the ground and we're not 100% sure

we know exactly where it's going it's already becoming difficult for the regulators to see their way clear to keep doing this unquote with fracking 36 35 times the amount of water comes out of the ground as cruel crude oil that's efficient the company's generally have gallons of water to dispose of every day ranchers and farmers are desperate for water so if the water can be cleaned and made usable both parties win Nash's idea is to use the same money oil companies would spend disposing of the water to clean it instead water is not only clean it's clean to match exactly what the surrounding soil needs customized for the soil it's tested to see what elements it may need and then the technology cleans out any elements that are not needed and leaves elements like nitrogen that the soil does need they're cleaning the water through a process called thermal heat doesn't say how much energy it takes to generate the thermal

heat used to clean the water no it doesn't it would if we can reuse the water from fracking it will reduce the pressure from all of that ground water because much of Laramie County gets water from the Ogolala aquifer which is gone dry in some areas of Texas and Oklahoma because we got all the water we need except there anymore what the frack oh and hey another hey hey two point oh whatever happened to the ozone hole remember that old timers will remember there was this thing above the Antarctic every year it was growing bigger and it was caused by refrigerant at the time that combined with stuff in the stratosphere or the other sphere to poke a hole in the atmosphere or the stratosphere upper atmosphere it was slightly above average size this year according to US

government scientists colder than average temperatures in the Antarctic huh stratosphere that is created ideal conditions for destroying ozone this year but declining levels of ozone depleting chemicals prevented the hole from being as large as it would have been 20 years ago chlorine levels in the Antarctic stratosphere have fallen about 11% from the peak year 2000 this year's colder temperatures would have given us a much larger ozone hole if chlorine was still at the levels we saw back in 2000 says the chief scientists for scientists at NASA the annual ozone hole reached an average area coverage of 8.83 million square miles almost three times the size of the continental United States that's this year and that's good last two years warmer temperatures in September limited the formation of polar stratosphere clouds and slowed the ozone holes growth the current hole area is still

large compared to the 1980s atmospheric levels of manmade ozone depleting chemicals increased up to 2000 since then they've slightly declined but remain high enough to produce significant ozone loss so smaller hole but still big you're welcome hello welcome to the show open up the window see the AC free from the grips of the humidity time to treat your shots for jeans it's on and do all things just like the springtime without the bus breezes is jammed up as grandma was up streets are filled enough with tourist and teens blasphemines Zinc back legs magnolia sweat sheet and half the last

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From the aforementioned New Orleans, this is Harry Scherer, welcoming to this edition of the show and now it is gentlemen. News of the Olympic movement. Produced by Jim Emerson Jr. Dayline Tokyo, the Japan Medical Association and the Tokyo Medical Association, hey, they've gotten together and submitted a proposal to the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games to start marathon races for the 2020 events at 5.30 in the morning. In a bid to deal with intense summer heat.

The group suggested moving up the starting times for the marathon races 90 minutes earlier than originally planned based on a study indicating a high risk of heat stroke among athletes, audiences and other attendees. Hopefully not Bob Costas. They also pointed out the starting the marathon events at 7 won't reduce the risk to participants health. The study estimated that the wet bulb globe temperature part in the expression that's a heat index measured in Celsius degrees used specifically used to set temperature at which heat stroke is likely to occur will be at a severe warning level at most of the sections of the marathon course if the races start at 7 a.m. It'll be at a warning level just a warning level. That's all. The results of the study, the associations were about causing trouble to emergency medical systems in Tokyo as the number of calls for ambulances is expected to grow due to heat stroke at the games. An official of the Tokyo Medical Association said intense heat like this past summer could cause deaths during the games.

Calgary Canada's Olympic Assessment Committee this week recommended the city scrap its bid for the 2026 winter games after a funding row with the Canadian government eight. Recommendation seeks to cancel the non-binding plebiscite middle of this month on whether to bid for the Olympics on the grounds that quote we do not have acceptable funding in place according to one of the city council members. The clock has run out and it's time to move on well they fixed the clock the next day. They agreed to move forward with that non-binding plebiscite to decide if the city should submit a bid. Because to tonight the federal and provincial governments announced they'd reach an agreement to consider a proposal which apply a couple billion maybe three billion to fund the games if the city agreed to sign on. They'd reached an agreement to consider a proposal you say that's all it took.

And Tokyo back there the metropolitan government is struggling to recruit gotten volunteer city guides for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Number of applicants currently well short of the 30,000 they need. Main job of a city volunteers to offer help to tourists at airports and station that's different from games volunteers that's proving more popular because it offers the chance to be near the games you say. Number of applications for games volunteers. They reached about 65% of the target to encourage more people to volunteer to help produce something that's going to make a lot of money for Nike and Coke. Because if that's not reason enough, that's not motivation enough. The local government is ramped up its advertising campaign. By emphasizing participation requires less of a time commitment than what's expected from games helpers. And they're facilitating applications by reducing the number of questions related to language proficiency. That'll fix it.

Welcome to Tokyo. Oh, come on. It's a movement. We all need one. Every day. I just want to say one more deal. Just one word. Yes, sir. I can listen to you. Yes, are you? Microplastics. Think about it. What do you think about it? Yes, I will. I'm sad. Hey, guess where that's my, that's Hay 3.0 now. Guess where microplastics have been found now? It. You know that children's book, Everybody Poops. Everybody's poop. Microplastics have been found in the human food chain as particles made of polypropylene, polyethylene, tarip phallate, one of the phallates, and others. They were detected in human poop.

According to research presented this week in Vienna. Vienna. Research is from Medical University of Vienna and the Environment Agency Austria-Monitor Group. Participants from countries across the world, as we'll put it to say, around the world, Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the UK, and Austria. The results show that every single sample tested positive for the presence of microplastic and up to nine different plastic types were identified. So there won't be a plastic model culture. We don't have to worry about that. Lots of variety in our poop plastic. Yes, we have put it everywhere. Now, I think that's official. I think we can agree on that. If we can't agree on a lot, but we can agree on that. We've succeeded if our goal was to fill the world with plastic. The US missile defense project continues to pace, ladies and gentlemen.

A US Japanese interceptor successfully shot down a test ballistic missile over Hawaii. This is from LiveScience.com. It was the second ever success for the program, a stunning technological achievement, you see, because it destroys targets with sheer force rather than an explosive warhead. The interceptor's kill vehicle rams into a ballistic missile with a force of a ten-ton truck travelling 600 miles an hour. This is the second ever success follows two public failures for the program, during which the interceptors failed to hit their targets. So it's 50% success rate. Actually, two failures and a third test failed to hit the target as well. One failed in June last year after a sailor accidentally triggered the missile's self-destruct feature. What does this button do? Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert and director of the East Asian Non-Proliferation Program,

and Monterey notes this track record isn't particularly inspiring for a program tasked with protecting cities from nuclear attack. The task of hitting a nuclear missile that's shooting through space when an interceptor is clearly incredibly difficult. It's like a bullet shooting to hit a bullet. Even the low success rate says Lewis may make them look more capable than they may really be. In the real world, a nuclear attack probably wouldn't involve just one missile. It probably wouldn't occur in the ideal weather conditions during which the tests are scheduled. And it might come from an unexpected location or travel along an unexpected, that is to say not straight line, trajectory. It's unclear how an interceptor that has a 50% success rate during tests would perform in a real world scenario like that. Live sciences reported previously that some experts believe efforts to expand U.S. missile defenses have triggered Russian investment in bizarre new forms of nuclear weapons designed to avoid such defenses.

And again, as we did in the 80s, premise all this on the hope that we'll drive the Russians bankrupt before we drive ourselves bankrupt. We can hope. And now, ladies and gentlemen, let's catch up on exactly what we're doing to this place, this place where up to now it's been okay for us to live. Because we have dominion. 60% of animals with a backbone, fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals have been wiped out by human activity from 1970 to 2014 according to a study by the World Wildlife Fund. Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction, and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, said the group.

This reported by Ojons false press from 1970 to 2014, 60% of all animals with a backbone were wiped out. The situation is really bad, it keeps getting worse, says the International Director of the WWF. The only good news is that we know exactly what is happening, he says. For freshwater fauna, the decline in population over the 44 years was 80%, regionally Latin America hit hardest, nearly 90% loss of wildlife over the same period. Another data set confirmed the depth of an unfolding mass extinction event, only the sixth and the last half billion years, depending on which of Earth's life forms are included. The current rate of species loss is 100 to 1000 times higher than only a few hundred years ago when people began to alter Earth's chemistry and crowd other keep creatures. Make way for man, measured by weight or biomass wild animals today account for only 4% of mammals on Earth, humans 36% livestock 60%.

10,000 years ago, that ratio was most likely reversed. We had livestock 60%. For corals it may already be too late, back-to-back marine heatwaves have already wiped out up to half of the globe's shallow water reefs, which support a quarter of all marine life. They're looking at coral mortality of 70 to 90% even if we manage to meet our global warming targets, a two degree centimeter world would be a death sentence according to a major UN report last month. Half a century of conservation efforts have achieved some successes, recoveries among tigers, manatees, grizzly bears, bluefin tuna, and bald eagles. But the onslaught of hunting, shrinking habitat, pollution, illegal trade, and climate change, all caused by humans has been too much to overcome. Says the lead author. Scientists call it the great acceleration. It's the exponential growth over the last 50 years in the use of energy water, timber, fish, food, fertilizer, pesticides, minerals, plastics, everything.

A century ago, only 15% of Earth's surface was used to grow crops and livestock today, more than 77% of land excluding Antarctica and 87% of the ocean has been modified by the direct effects of us. All right, almost complete in our dominion. Between 1993 and 2009, an area of wilderness larger than India was lost to human settlement farming, mining, and other pressures, according to an article in Nature. In the ocean areas that are free of industrial fishing, pollution, and shipping are almost completely confined to the polar regions. Where, if you ask me, they belong? Numerous studies reveal that Earth's remaining wilderness areas are increasingly important buffers against the effect of climate change and other human impacts. But so far, the contribution of intact ecosystems has not been an explicit target in any international policy framework. Maybe that's because we have no way of translating the dollar into dollar value or euro value, if you like.

The value of the services provided to us by an intact ecosystem. Although some estimates are that they total in the trillions on a related subject, news of the warm. Come on, cheer up. The good news is it's all about us. A meticulous recreation of a three-decade old study of birds on a mountainside in Peru has given scientists a rare chance to prove how the changing climate is pushing species out of the places they're adapted to. The surveys of more than 400 species of birds in 1985 and then last year found the populations of almost all had declined as many as eight had disappeared completely, nearly all had moved to higher elevations in what scientists call an escalator to extinction. Once you move up as high an altitude as you can go, there's nowhere else left, says the study author from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Some rich top bird populations on this mountainside in Peru were literally wiped out. Not certain whether the birds shifted rangers because of temperature changing or indirectly because of shifts in the ranges of the insects or seeds they feed on. This was published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Science, which unlike the academies I belong to is a real academy. Climate scientists have not been properly counting for what plants do at night and that it turns out as a mistake. It's always a mistake to ignore what creatures do at night. Take it from me. A new study from the Department of Energy's Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has found that plant nutrient uptake in the absence of photosynthesis that is at night affects greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. Published in Nature Climate Change, the studies by author William Broly demonstrates how to improve climate models to more accurately represent land biogeochemical dynamics. He and his team found that plants can uptake more CO2 and soils lose less nitrous oxide than previously thought.

They imply weaker terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks with the atmosphere than current models predict. He says, this is good-ish news. New series debuting on ABC this winter, good-ish. Cold-fired flower plants online are planned in Asia, threatened efforts to curb emissions blamed for global warming according to the head of the international energy agency. Cold-burning plants would lock in the emissions trajectory of the world. Full stop. Faith Birl told the financial times this week. Use of the warm, ladies and gentlemen. Indeed it is. A copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Music When an early autumn walks the land and shields the breeze and touches with her hand.

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